If a person thinks everyone should just turn off their cars and stop “idling”, then obviously the next step is also to stop driving slowly. Driving slowly is as close as it gets to running a car “in idle”. The next step would be deciding at what speed a car could not be mistaken as …
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The Last Day of February
For all the persons born on the 29th of February, I have a proposition. What if, instead of dropping your day off the map, we dropped another day? Think of it this way: your birthday is missing from the calendar for three year increments, then every fourth year it returns—but it doesn’t have to be. …
Evidence
Recently, I was told, by someone who was objectively observing me, that I’m “one of those people” who must have evidence. I accept. I agree. Show me the evidence. Evidence comes in two main forms. There’s empirical evidence, and there’s empyreal evidence. Empirical evidence is temporal, tangible, often visible. Chromosomes, for instance, are evidence which …
Doctor Visit
So many negative emotions roll through your heart and brain when you realize it’s time to go to the doctor that it’s a wonder any of us are healthy at all. Pre-visit anxiety is enough to start you down the path to having a coronary, or an aneurysm. Which, of course, would cause you to …
Humans Make Assumptions
The wonderful and insightful Tony Robbins made the observation that people are either auditory in their focus or visual. It’s possible to discover which one someone is by their word choice. Does the person say, “I hear you,” or do they say, “I see what you’re saying”? If you tell them to go left, do …
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